Music stops playing in PowerPoint 2003 slideshow

What Michael asked -- what does the autorun.ini say? (You can open it in
Notepad or Wordpad.)

Or, when you go to File | Package for CD and choose Options, which option
are you choosing for "select how presentations will play in the viewer"?

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
news
I'm back!! I really appreciate all of the time you spent helping me, but
when
I changed the effect options to "Stop playing after 999 slides," the songs
only played one time each. I changed the timing to repeat until end of
slide,
but this caused the songs to overlap. I then changed the timing to first
song, (none) and second song to play 3 times, etc. The songs still would
only
play one time each.

I reverted back to my original settings for the effect options, e.g.,
first
song, stop after 23 slides, timing; play to end of slide; second song,
stop
after 39 slides, etc. Now, I am back in business except for the same
problem
of autorun not working properly on my computer. The autorun and PP viewer,
as
always, are listed on the CD, but I still have to click on the PP file and
select from the dropdown menu for Microsoft PowerPoint to run the
slideshow.
I can live with this as long as everything else works on the XP computers,
but if you have anymore suggestions for me to try I would more than
welcome
them.

Again, I thank all of you for your time and help! I hope my experience
helps
someone else.

Deloresw



"Deloresw" wrote:

Thank you so much for your help! I will try not to cry too much if
something
does not work! I have had fun making the slideshows, but the small
glitches
were about to get me down.

Deloresw

"Echo S" wrote:

Well, I'm glad I could make you laugh, anyway!

But now I might make you cry. :-(

Using the "stop playing after 999 slides" won't keep you from having to
make
timing adjustments to the slide transitions. But it should ensure that
the
songs play all the way through and not stop unexpectedly partway
through the
song. I would not try to use a "stop after XX slides" and put the real
number of slides in there. It just doesn't seem to work right for some
strange reason.

However, you should be aware that timing is not PowerPoint's strong
suit.
You're not going to get extremely accurate timing with PPT. My favorite
way
to explain it is, if you're playing the Star Spangled Banner and you
want
the fireworks animation to happen when the song says "and the rockets'
red
glare," well, it ain't gonna happen. PPT just isn't going to be that
precise.

So, you will probably be better off just putting 3-, 4-, and 5-second
automatic transitions on each slide and trying to get within a few
seconds
of the total sound length.

Or, what I might do is use a sound editor and combine all the MP3s into
one
sound file, insert that on the first slide and set it to stop playing
after
999 slides, and then just set the transition times (3, 4, 5 seconds or
so)
for all the slides.

Audacity is a good free sound editor. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
You
must download and install the LAME MP3 encoder as well, but there are
links
to it on that site. Just click "Download Audacity 1.2.6" to get to it.

As for putting the MP3 into the folder with the presentation before
inserting it, yes, it's a good habit to get into. But it's not really
necessary since you're using Package for CD. The PfCD process actually
creates a new folder and puts the presentation and the MP3s in the same
folder -- and it fixes up all the links. So you don't have to worry so
much
about starting with the MP3 in the same folder as the presentation. It
may
make your life easier, though, and, as I mentioned, it really is a good
habit to get into.

Go here http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd2.htm and scroll down a
little
way, and you can see a screeenshot of the files inside a package for CD
folder. You'll have autorun.INF, gdiplus.dll, pptview.exe and a bunch
of
other files. You'll also see your presentation file and your MP3s. (The
linked audio in the screenshot is a WMA file, Beethoven's Symphony....)
Burn
all those files to the CD. Don't burn the *folder.* Windows looks for
the
autorun.INF file, or sometimes the play.BAT file, to start the CD
automatically. If that file is inside a folder, Windows can't see it on
the
CD. And those INF/BAT files look for the pptview.exe file on the CD
directly. If it's in a folder, they can't find it. And thye pptview.exe
file
looks for your presentation (PPT or PPS) file on the CD. If it's in a
folder, the Viewer won't be able to find it. And so on. You get the
idea.

As for the 50,000 -- that is only for WAV files. Only WAVs can be
embedded,
and so that setting applies only to WAVs. You are working with MP3s, so
you
can ignore it. You can leave it alone or set it back to 100 or
whatever. It
doesn't matter.

Oh, file size. 170 slides at 34MB or so doesn't seem out of whack. So I
don't think the file size is the problem. (I could be wrong, though,
and I'm
sure others will pop in and correct me if I am!)

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
Thank you so much for your comments--you are soooo funny. smile I
need
funny after being submerged in these slideshows.

I have been doing everything you said about adding the music, except
I
have
spent a lot of time calculating the time for each song and testing
and
retesting when I add or delete a slide to make sure the songs do not
overlap
or not play long enough. So if I set each song to stop playing after
999
slides, will this alleviate me having to make adjustments to the
music
when I
need to make changes?

The song that will not play correctly on the XP computers is 2:23
minutes;
4.35 MB, the other songs are 8.18 MB; 4.67 MB; 7.63 MB; and 2.11 MB.
As
you
can see, I have added two more songs. smile Each slideshow is
approximately
170 slides of pictures and satelitte maps. The largest slideshow is
about
34
MB and the others are about 24 MB.

You said "all the files should be "loose" on the CD. If they're
inside a
folder, the CD won't autorun."

If I am understanding you correctly, should I move the music files
and
slideshow file to the same folder BEFORE I begin inserting the music
files
into the slideshow? I now have the music files in a folder under
"Music."
This morning, I made a new folder to prepare to move the music files
and
slideshow into this new folder.

Also, should I adjust the maximum size for sound files back down to
128 kb
from the 50,000 kbs?

Delores

For the sound part, here's the process I'd use to insert the sounds.

1. On slide 1, Insert | Movies and Sounds | Sound from File. Navigate
to
your MP3 and insert it.
2. When prompted, select "play automatically."
3. Right-click the sound icon on the slide, choose custom animation
4. In the custom animation pane, double-click the sound file in the
animation list to open the Play Sound dialog.
5. On the Effect tab, make sure Start Playing is set to "from
beginning"
and
"stop playing" is set to "after 999 slides." I know you may only want
the
first sound to play for 10 slides or something, but go ahead and put
999
in
there.
6. Click OK to close.

Now go to the slide you want the 2nd sound file to begin playing on
and
repeat the process. Put 999 in the "stop playing after" setting
again. Do
the same for the 3rd sound file.

You may have this set up just fine, and it could be just that the
computer
is running out of resources as you play the presentation. After all,
it's
running from a CD, which is slower than running from the harddrive.
This...

The music plays fine with the first two sound tracks. The only
way we
can
start the music of the third sound track is to go back and click
on
the
prior
slide to advance to the slide with the third sound track. The
third
sound
track plays for awhile and then stops a couple more times so we
have
to
go
through the same procedure to start the music again.

...is the odd part, and the part that's making me think it may be a
resources issue. How big is the third MP3 file? (I know they're not
usually
large, but it never hurts to ask.) Also, how big is your PPT file --
like,
how many slides and also how big is the file size (in kb or MB)? If
you
have
lots of high-resolution pictures, that often makes the file size very
large
and could be bogging down the playback. It can be resolved, but I
hate to
send you down that road if it's not really the issue.

--
B each.





"Echo S" wrote:

If you use Package for CD, the MP3 files should be in the same
folder
with
the presentation and Viewer files. They will be properly linked (the
package
for CD process resolves all the links for you) and should play on
other
computers.

If the first two play, I'd imagine that the packaging and linking
went
okay,
and the third one should as well. Since it does play at least
sometimes
on
the other computers, it sounds to me (no pun intended) as if the
MP3s are
all linked properly.

For the automatic starting part, I would try this:
1. File | Package for CD
2. Choose copy to folder and run the PforCD process
3. Burn the contents of the folder to the CD. Don't burn the folder
itself -- all the files should be "loose" on the CD. If they're
inside a
folder, the CD won't autorun.

For the sound part, here's the process I'd use to insert the sounds.

1. On slide 1, Insert | Movies and Sounds | Sound from File.
Navigate to
your MP3 and insert it.
2. When prompted, select "play automatically."
3. Right-click the sound icon on the slide, choose custom animation
4. In the custom animation pane, double-click the sound file in the
animation list to open the Play Sound dialog.
5. On the Effect tab, make sure Start Playing is set to "from
beginning"
and
"stop playing" is set to "after 999 slides." I know you may only
want the
first sound to play for 10 slides or something, but go ahead and put
999
in
there.
6. Click OK to close.

Now go to the slide you want the 2nd sound file to begin playing on
and
repeat the process. Put 999 in the "stop playing after" setting
again. Do
the same for the 3rd sound file.

You may have this set up just fine, and it could be just that the
computer
is running out of resources as you play the presentation. After all,
it's
running from a CD, which is slower than running from the harddrive.
This...

The music plays fine with the first two sound tracks. The only
way
we
can
start the music of the third sound track is to go back and
click on
the
prior
slide to advance to the slide with the third sound track. The
third
sound
track plays for awhile and then stops a couple more times so we
have
to
go
through the same procedure to start the music again.

...is the odd part, and the part that's making me think it may be a
resources issue. How big is the third MP3 file? (I know they're not
usually
large, but it never hurts to ask.) Also, how big is your PPT file --
like,
how many slides and also how big is the file size (in kb or MB)? If
you
have
lots of high-resolution pictures, that often makes the file size
very
large
and could be bogging down the playback. It can be resolved, but I
hate to
send you down that road if it's not really the issue.

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
I appreciate your response, but I still do not understand why the
other
songs
play correctly if they are not embedded. Also, can you give me
some
simple
instructions on how to go about linking the files to the
slideshow,
e.g.,
do
I perform the same tasks I have been doing by inserting the sound
files
in
the "add effects" column and using the "effect options" to start
and
stop?
The instructions I read and downloaded make it sound complicated
to me.
If
I
remember correctly, the instructions say if you link the sound
files,
you
have to lower the kbs from 50,000 back to the 128 kbs before
choosing
to
link
the files. Thanks again!
Deloresw

"Michael Koerner" wrote:

First MP3 files cannot be embedded, they have to linked, and must
accompany
the presentation. Best way is to put them all into the same
folder as
you
presentation before you insert them in PowerPoint. When using the
package
for CD option, Make sure to select the viewer, and use the copy
to
file
option. Then use your CD burning software to copy all of the
files to
the
CD. This will give you an Autorun CD.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
I created five slideshows in PowerPoint 2003 with the VISTA
operating
system
on a new Dell Dimension E520 computer. I embedded the same
three
different

The autorun.ini says open=pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt"
The options for package the CD a
Include these files
PP Viewer
Play all presentations automatically in the specified order
Linked files has check mark

"Echo S" wrote:

What Michael asked -- what does the autorun.ini say? (You can open it in
Notepad or Wordpad.)

Or, when you go to File | Package for CD and choose Options, which option
are you choosing for "select how presentations will play in the viewer"?

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
news
I'm back!! I really appreciate all of the time you spent helping me, but
when
I changed the effect options to "Stop playing after 999 slides," the songs
only played one time each. I changed the timing to repeat until end of
slide,
but this caused the songs to overlap. I then changed the timing to first
song, (none) and second song to play 3 times, etc. The songs still would
only
play one time each.

I reverted back to my original settings for the effect options, e.g.,
first
song, stop after 23 slides, timing; play to end of slide; second song,
stop
after 39 slides, etc. Now, I am back in business except for the same
problem
of autorun not working properly on my computer. The autorun and PP viewer,
as
always, are listed on the CD, but I still have to click on the PP file and
select from the dropdown menu for Microsoft PowerPoint to run the
slideshow.
I can live with this as long as everything else works on the XP computers,
but if you have anymore suggestions for me to try I would more than
welcome
them.

Again, I thank all of you for your time and help! I hope my experience
helps
someone else.

Deloresw



"Deloresw" wrote:

Thank you so much for your help! I will try not to cry too much if
something
does not work! I have had fun making the slideshows, but the small
glitches
were about to get me down.

Deloresw

"Echo S" wrote:

Well, I'm glad I could make you laugh, anyway!

But now I might make you cry. :-(

Using the "stop playing after 999 slides" won't keep you from having to
make
timing adjustments to the slide transitions. But it should ensure that
the
songs play all the way through and not stop unexpectedly partway
through the
song. I would not try to use a "stop after XX slides" and put the real
number of slides in there. It just doesn't seem to work right for some
strange reason.

However, you should be aware that timing is not PowerPoint's strong
suit.
You're not going to get extremely accurate timing with PPT. My favorite
way
to explain it is, if you're playing the Star Spangled Banner and you
want
the fireworks animation to happen when the song says "and the rockets'
red
glare," well, it ain't gonna happen. PPT just isn't going to be that
precise.

So, you will probably be better off just putting 3-, 4-, and 5-second
automatic transitions on each slide and trying to get within a few
seconds
of the total sound length.

Or, what I might do is use a sound editor and combine all the MP3s into
one
sound file, insert that on the first slide and set it to stop playing
after
999 slides, and then just set the transition times (3, 4, 5 seconds or
so)
for all the slides.

Audacity is a good free sound editor. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
You
must download and install the LAME MP3 encoder as well, but there are
links
to it on that site. Just click "Download Audacity 1.2.6" to get to it.

As for putting the MP3 into the folder with the presentation before
inserting it, yes, it's a good habit to get into. But it's not really
necessary since you're using Package for CD. The PfCD process actually
creates a new folder and puts the presentation and the MP3s in the same
folder -- and it fixes up all the links. So you don't have to worry so
much
about starting with the MP3 in the same folder as the presentation. It
may
make your life easier, though, and, as I mentioned, it really is a good
habit to get into.

Go here http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd2.htm and scroll down a
little
way, and you can see a screeenshot of the files inside a package for CD
folder. You'll have autorun.INF, gdiplus.dll, pptview.exe and a bunch
of
other files. You'll also see your presentation file and your MP3s. (The
linked audio in the screenshot is a WMA file, Beethoven's Symphony....)
Burn
all those files to the CD. Don't burn the *folder.* Windows looks for
the
autorun.INF file, or sometimes the play.BAT file, to start the CD
automatically. If that file is inside a folder, Windows can't see it on
the
CD. And those INF/BAT files look for the pptview.exe file on the CD
directly. If it's in a folder, they can't find it. And thye pptview.exe
file
looks for your presentation (PPT or PPS) file on the CD. If it's in a
folder, the Viewer won't be able to find it. And so on. You get the
idea.

As for the 50,000 -- that is only for WAV files. Only WAVs can be
embedded,
and so that setting applies only to WAVs. You are working with MP3s, so
you
can ignore it. You can leave it alone or set it back to 100 or
whatever. It
doesn't matter.

Oh, file size. 170 slides at 34MB or so doesn't seem out of whack. So I
don't think the file size is the problem. (I could be wrong, though,
and I'm
sure others will pop in and correct me if I am!)

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
Thank you so much for your comments--you are soooo funny. smile I
need
funny after being submerged in these slideshows.

I have been doing everything you said about adding the music, except
I
have
spent a lot of time calculating the time for each song and testing
and
retesting when I add or delete a slide to make sure the songs do not
overlap
or not play long enough. So if I set each song to stop playing after
999
slides, will this alleviate me having to make adjustments to the
music
when I
need to make changes?

The song that will not play correctly on the XP computers is 2:23
minutes;
4.35 MB, the other songs are 8.18 MB; 4.67 MB; 7.63 MB; and 2.11 MB.
As
you
can see, I have added two more songs. smile Each slideshow is
approximately
170 slides of pictures and satelitte maps. The largest slideshow is
about
34
MB and the others are about 24 MB.

You said "all the files should be "loose" on the CD. If they're
inside a
folder, the CD won't autorun."

If I am understanding you correctly, should I move the music files
and
slideshow file to the same folder BEFORE I begin inserting the music
files
into the slideshow? I now have the music files in a folder under
"Music."
This morning, I made a new folder to prepare to move the music files
and
slideshow into this new folder.

Also, should I adjust the maximum size for sound files back down to
128 kb
from the 50,000 kbs?

Delores

For the sound part, here's the process I'd use to insert the sounds.

1. On slide 1, Insert | Movies and Sounds | Sound from File. Navigate
to
your MP3 and insert it.
2. When prompted, select "play automatically."
3. Right-click the sound icon on the slide, choose custom animation
4. In the custom animation pane, double-click the sound file in the
animation list to open the Play Sound dialog.
5. On the Effect tab, make sure Start Playing is set to "from
beginning"
and
"stop playing" is set to "after 999 slides." I know you may only want
the
first sound to play for 10 slides or something, but go ahead and put
999
in
there.
6. Click OK to close.

Now go to the slide you want the 2nd sound file to begin playing on
and
repeat the process. Put 999 in the "stop playing after" setting
again. Do
the same for the 3rd sound file.

You may have this set up just fine, and it could be just that the
computer
is running out of resources as you play the presentation. After all,
it's
running from a CD, which is slower than running from the harddrive.
This...

The music plays fine with the first two sound tracks. The only
way we
can
start the music of the third sound track is to go back and click
on
the
prior
slide to advance to the slide with the third sound track. The
third
sound
track plays for awhile and then stops a couple more times so we
have
to
go
through the same procedure to start the music again.

...is the odd part, and the part that's making me think it may be a
resources issue. How big is the third MP3 file? (I know they're not
usually
large, but it never hurts to ask.) Also, how big is your PPT file --
like,
how many slides and also how big is the file size (in kb or MB)? If
you
have
lots of high-resolution pictures, that often makes the file size very
large
and could be bogging down the playback. It can be resolved, but I
hate to
send you down that road if it's not really the issue.

--
B each.





"Echo S" wrote:

If you use Package for CD, the MP3 files should be in the same
folder
with
the presentation and Viewer files. They will be properly linked (the
package
for CD process resolves all the links for you) and should play on
other
computers.

If the first two play, I'd imagine that the packaging and linking
went
okay,
and the third one should as well. Since it does play at least
sometimes
on
the other computers, it sounds to me (no pun intended) as if the
MP3s are
all linked properly.

For the automatic starting part, I would try this:

I think that should work. Maybe Michael will spot something, though -- he's
better with the autorun thing than I am!

What's in your playlist.txt file?

I'm wondering if it's just that autorun has been turned off on the computer
in question.

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
The autorun.ini says open=pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt"
The options for package the CD a
Include these files
PP Viewer
Play all presentations automatically in the specified order
Linked files has check mark

"Echo S" wrote:

What Michael asked -- what does the autorun.ini say? (You can open it in
Notepad or Wordpad.)

Or, when you go to File | Package for CD and choose Options, which option
are you choosing for "select how presentations will play in the viewer"?

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
news
I'm back!! I really appreciate all of the time you spent helping me,
but
when
I changed the effect options to "Stop playing after 999 slides," the
songs
only played one time each. I changed the timing to repeat until end of
slide,
but this caused the songs to overlap. I then changed the timing to
first
song, (none) and second song to play 3 times, etc. The songs still
would
only
play one time each.

I reverted back to my original settings for the effect options, e.g.,
first
song, stop after 23 slides, timing; play to end of slide; second song,
stop
after 39 slides, etc. Now, I am back in business except for the same
problem
of autorun not working properly on my computer. The autorun and PP
viewer,
as
always, are listed on the CD, but I still have to click on the PP file
and
select from the dropdown menu for Microsoft PowerPoint to run the
slideshow.
I can live with this as long as everything else works on the XP
computers,
but if you have anymore suggestions for me to try I would more than
welcome
them.

Again, I thank all of you for your time and help! I hope my experience
helps
someone else.

Deloresw



"Deloresw" wrote:

Thank you so much for your help! I will try not to cry too much if
something
does not work! I have had fun making the slideshows, but the small
glitches
were about to get me down.

Deloresw

"Echo S" wrote:

Well, I'm glad I could make you laugh, anyway!

But now I might make you cry. :-(

Using the "stop playing after 999 slides" won't keep you from having
to
make
timing adjustments to the slide transitions. But it should ensure
that
the
songs play all the way through and not stop unexpectedly partway
through the
song. I would not try to use a "stop after XX slides" and put the
real
number of slides in there. It just doesn't seem to work right for
some
strange reason.

However, you should be aware that timing is not PowerPoint's strong
suit.
You're not going to get extremely accurate timing with PPT. My
favorite
way
to explain it is, if you're playing the Star Spangled Banner and you
want
the fireworks animation to happen when the song says "and the
rockets'
red
glare," well, it ain't gonna happen. PPT just isn't going to be that
precise.

So, you will probably be better off just putting 3-, 4-, and
5-second
automatic transitions on each slide and trying to get within a few
seconds
of the total sound length.

Or, what I might do is use a sound editor and combine all the MP3s
into
one
sound file, insert that on the first slide and set it to stop
playing
after
999 slides, and then just set the transition times (3, 4, 5 seconds
or
so)
for all the slides.

Audacity is a good free sound editor.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
You
must download and install the LAME MP3 encoder as well, but there
are
links
to it on that site. Just click "Download Audacity 1.2.6" to get to
it.

As for putting the MP3 into the folder with the presentation before
inserting it, yes, it's a good habit to get into. But it's not
really
necessary since you're using Package for CD. The PfCD process
actually
creates a new folder and puts the presentation and the MP3s in the
same
folder -- and it fixes up all the links. So you don't have to worry
so
much
about starting with the MP3 in the same folder as the presentation.
It
may
make your life easier, though, and, as I mentioned, it really is a
good
habit to get into.

Go here http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd2.htm and scroll down a
little
way, and you can see a screeenshot of the files inside a package for
CD
folder. You'll have autorun.INF, gdiplus.dll, pptview.exe and a
bunch
of
other files. You'll also see your presentation file and your MP3s.
(The
linked audio in the screenshot is a WMA file, Beethoven's
Symphony....)
Burn
all those files to the CD. Don't burn the *folder.* Windows looks
for
the
autorun.INF file, or sometimes the play.BAT file, to start the CD
automatically. If that file is inside a folder, Windows can't see it
on
the
CD. And those INF/BAT files look for the pptview.exe file on the CD
directly. If it's in a folder, they can't find it. And thye
pptview.exe
file
looks for your presentation (PPT or PPS) file on the CD. If it's in
a
folder, the Viewer won't be able to find it. And so on. You get the
idea.

As for the 50,000 -- that is only for WAV files. Only WAVs can be
embedded,
and so that setting applies only to WAVs. You are working with MP3s,
so
you
can ignore it. You can leave it alone or set it back to 100 or
whatever. It
doesn't matter.

Oh, file size. 170 slides at 34MB or so doesn't seem out of whack.
So I
don't think the file size is the problem. (I could be wrong, though,
and I'm
sure others will pop in and correct me if I am!)

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
Thank you so much for your comments--you are soooo funny. smile
I
need
funny after being submerged in these slideshows.

I have been doing everything you said about adding the music,
except
I
have
spent a lot of time calculating the time for each song and testing
and
retesting when I add or delete a slide to make sure the songs do
not
overlap
or not play long enough. So if I set each song to stop playing
after
999
slides, will this alleviate me having to make adjustments to the
music
when I
need to make changes?

The song that will not play correctly on the XP computers is 2:23
minutes;
4.35 MB, the other songs are 8.18 MB; 4.67 MB; 7.63 MB; and 2.11
MB.
As
you
can see, I have added two more songs. smile Each slideshow is
approximately
170 slides of pictures and satelitte maps. The largest slideshow
is
about
34
MB and the others are about 24 MB.

You said "all the files should be "loose" on the CD. If they're
inside a
folder, the CD won't autorun."

If I am understanding you correctly, should I move the music files
and
slideshow file to the same folder BEFORE I begin inserting the
music
files
into the slideshow? I now have the music files in a folder under
"Music."
This morning, I made a new folder to prepare to move the music
files
and
slideshow into this new folder.

Also, should I adjust the maximum size for sound files back down
to
128 kb
from the 50,000 kbs?

Delores

For the sound part, here's the process I'd use to insert the
sounds.

1. On slide 1, Insert | Movies and Sounds | Sound from File.
Navigate
to
your MP3 and insert it.
2. When prompted, select "play automatically."
3. Right-click the sound icon on the slide, choose custom
animation
4. In the custom animation pane, double-click the sound file in
the
animation list to open the Play Sound dialog.
5. On the Effect tab, make sure Start Playing is set to "from
beginning"
and
"stop playing" is set to "after 999 slides." I know you may only
want
the
first sound to play for 10 slides or something, but go ahead and
put
999
in
there.
6. Click OK to close.

Now go to the slide you want the 2nd sound file to begin playing
on
and
repeat the process. Put 999 in the "stop playing after" setting
again. Do
the same for the 3rd sound file.

You may have this set up just fine, and it could be just that the
computer
is running out of resources as you play the presentation. After
all,
it's
running from a CD, which is slower than running from the
harddrive.
This...

The music plays fine with the first two sound tracks. The only
way we
can
start the music of the third sound track is to go back and
click
on
the
prior
slide to advance to the slide with the third sound track. The
third
sound
track plays for awhile and then stops a couple more times so
we
have
to
go
through the same procedure to start the music again.

...is the odd part, and the part that's making me think it may be
a
resources issue. How big is the third MP3 file? (I know they're
not
usually
large, but it never hurts to ask.) Also, how big is your PPT
file --
like,
how many slides and also how big is the file size (in kb or MB)?
If
you
have
lots of high-resolution pictures, that often makes the file size
very
large
and could be bogging down the playback. It can be resolved, but I
hate to
send you down that road if it's not really the issue.

--
B each.





"Echo S" wrote:

If you use Package for CD, the MP3 files should be in the same
folder
with
the presentation and Viewer files. They will be properly linked
(the
package
for CD process resolves all the links for you) and should play on
other
computers.

If the first two play, I'd imagine that the packaging and linking
went
okay,
and the third one should as well. Since it does play at least
sometimes
on
the other computers, it sounds to me (no pun intended) as if the
MP3s are
all linked properly.

For the automatic starting part, I would try this:

The playlist text file has the name of the PP show: AlecNew.pps

I have not activated the autorun on anything but Media Player. When the
popup comes up, I ignore it and open a file where ever I choose. Maybe that
is the problem on my computer. I have been blaming VISTA, which is easy to
do. smile I will test it and let you know what happens.

One of my son-in-laws is a computer specialist and he told me he NEVER lets
any program open automatically so that would be the solution for why it does
not open automatically on his computer. I am the one who questioned it, but I
have. I would almost bet my other son-in-law feels the same way and has the
autorun turned off.

"Echo S" wrote:

I think that should work. Maybe Michael will spot something, though -- he's
better with the autorun thing than I am!

What's in your playlist.txt file?

I'm wondering if it's just that autorun has been turned off on the computer
in question.

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
The autorun.ini says open=pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt"
The options for package the CD a
Include these files
PP Viewer
Play all presentations automatically in the specified order
Linked files has check mark

"Echo S" wrote:

What Michael asked -- what does the autorun.ini say? (You can open it in
Notepad or Wordpad.)

Or, when you go to File | Package for CD and choose Options, which option
are you choosing for "select how presentations will play in the viewer"?

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
news I'm back!! I really appreciate all of the time you spent helping me,
but
when
I changed the effect options to "Stop playing after 999 slides," the
songs
only played one time each. I changed the timing to repeat until end of
slide,
but this caused the songs to overlap. I then changed the timing to
first
song, (none) and second song to play 3 times, etc. The songs still
would
only
play one time each.

I reverted back to my original settings for the effect options, e.g.,
first
song, stop after 23 slides, timing; play to end of slide; second song,
stop
after 39 slides, etc. Now, I am back in business except for the same
problem
of autorun not working properly on my computer. The autorun and PP
viewer,
as
always, are listed on the CD, but I still have to click on the PP file
and
select from the dropdown menu for Microsoft PowerPoint to run the
slideshow.
I can live with this as long as everything else works on the XP
computers,
but if you have anymore suggestions for me to try I would more than
welcome
them.

Again, I thank all of you for your time and help! I hope my experience
helps
someone else.

Deloresw



"Deloresw" wrote:

Thank you so much for your help! I will try not to cry too much if
something
does not work! I have had fun making the slideshows, but the small
glitches
were about to get me down.

Deloresw

"Echo S" wrote:

Well, I'm glad I could make you laugh, anyway!

But now I might make you cry. :-(

Using the "stop playing after 999 slides" won't keep you from having
to
make
timing adjustments to the slide transitions. But it should ensure
that
the
songs play all the way through and not stop unexpectedly partway
through the
song. I would not try to use a "stop after XX slides" and put the
real
number of slides in there. It just doesn't seem to work right for
some
strange reason.

However, you should be aware that timing is not PowerPoint's strong
suit.
You're not going to get extremely accurate timing with PPT. My
favorite
way
to explain it is, if you're playing the Star Spangled Banner and you
want
the fireworks animation to happen when the song says "and the
rockets'
red
glare," well, it ain't gonna happen. PPT just isn't going to be that
precise.

So, you will probably be better off just putting 3-, 4-, and
5-second
automatic transitions on each slide and trying to get within a few
seconds
of the total sound length.

Or, what I might do is use a sound editor and combine all the MP3s
into
one
sound file, insert that on the first slide and set it to stop
playing
after
999 slides, and then just set the transition times (3, 4, 5 seconds
or
so)
for all the slides.

Audacity is a good free sound editor.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
You
must download and install the LAME MP3 encoder as well, but there
are
links
to it on that site. Just click "Download Audacity 1.2.6" to get to
it.

As for putting the MP3 into the folder with the presentation before
inserting it, yes, it's a good habit to get into. But it's not
really
necessary since you're using Package for CD. The PfCD process
actually
creates a new folder and puts the presentation and the MP3s in the
same
folder -- and it fixes up all the links. So you don't have to worry
so
much
about starting with the MP3 in the same folder as the presentation.
It
may
make your life easier, though, and, as I mentioned, it really is a
good
habit to get into.

Go here http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd2.htm and scroll down a
little
way, and you can see a screeenshot of the files inside a package for
CD
folder. You'll have autorun.INF, gdiplus.dll, pptview.exe and a
bunch
of
other files. You'll also see your presentation file and your MP3s.
(The
linked audio in the screenshot is a WMA file, Beethoven's
Symphony....)
Burn
all those files to the CD. Don't burn the *folder.* Windows looks
for
the
autorun.INF file, or sometimes the play.BAT file, to start the CD
automatically. If that file is inside a folder, Windows can't see it
on
the
CD. And those INF/BAT files look for the pptview.exe file on the CD
directly. If it's in a folder, they can't find it. And thye
pptview.exe
file
looks for your presentation (PPT or PPS) file on the CD. If it's in
a
folder, the Viewer won't be able to find it. And so on. You get the
idea.

As for the 50,000 -- that is only for WAV files. Only WAVs can be
embedded,
and so that setting applies only to WAVs. You are working with MP3s,
so
you
can ignore it. You can leave it alone or set it back to 100 or
whatever. It
doesn't matter.

Oh, file size. 170 slides at 34MB or so doesn't seem out of whack.
So I
don't think the file size is the problem. (I could be wrong, though,
and I'm
sure others will pop in and correct me if I am!)

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
Thank you so much for your comments--you are soooo funny. smile
I
need
funny after being submerged in these slideshows.

I have been doing everything you said about adding the music,
except
I
have
spent a lot of time calculating the time for each song and testing
and
retesting when I add or delete a slide to make sure the songs do
not
overlap
or not play long enough. So if I set each song to stop playing
after
999
slides, will this alleviate me having to make adjustments to the
music
when I
need to make changes?

The song that will not play correctly on the XP computers is 2:23
minutes;
4.35 MB, the other songs are 8.18 MB; 4.67 MB; 7.63 MB; and 2.11
MB.
As
you
can see, I have added two more songs. smile Each slideshow is
approximately
170 slides of pictures and satelitte maps. The largest slideshow
is
about
34
MB and the others are about 24 MB.

You said "all the files should be "loose" on the CD. If they're
inside a
folder, the CD won't autorun."

If I am understanding you correctly, should I move the music files
and
slideshow file to the same folder BEFORE I begin inserting the
music
files
into the slideshow? I now have the music files in a folder under
"Music."
This morning, I made a new folder to prepare to move the music
files
and
slideshow into this new folder.

Also, should I adjust the maximum size for sound files back down
to
128 kb
from the 50,000 kbs?

Delores

For the sound part, here's the process I'd use to insert the
sounds.

1. On slide 1, Insert | Movies and Sounds | Sound from File.
Navigate
to
your MP3 and insert it.
2. When prompted, select "play automatically."
3. Right-click the sound icon on the slide, choose custom
animation
4. In the custom animation pane, double-click the sound file in
the
animation list to open the Play Sound dialog.
5. On the Effect tab, make sure Start Playing is set to "from
beginning"
and
"stop playing" is set to "after 999 slides." I know you may only
want
the
first sound to play for 10 slides or something, but go ahead and
put

One more question--When I package the PowerPoint slideshow, I always type in
a different name for the CD or file than the name of my PP slideshow. Is this
the correct thing to do or am I supposed to use the same name as my PP
slideshow?

I have been curious where the CD or file name goes to. My actual PP
slideshow file name always appears in the list on the CD, but I have never
seen anything about the name I assigned to the packaging. I hope this makes
sense.
Deloresw

"Echo S" wrote:

I think that should work. Maybe Michael will spot something, though -- he's
better with the autorun thing than I am!

What's in your playlist.txt file?

I'm wondering if it's just that autorun has been turned off on the computer
in question.

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
The autorun.ini says open=pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt"
The options for package the CD a
Include these files
PP Viewer
Play all presentations automatically in the specified order
Linked files has check mark

"Echo S" wrote:

What Michael asked -- what does the autorun.ini say? (You can open it in
Notepad or Wordpad.)

Or, when you go to File | Package for CD and choose Options, which option
are you choosing for "select how presentations will play in the viewer"?

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
news I'm back!! I really appreciate all of the time you spent helping me,
but
when
I changed the effect options to "Stop playing after 999 slides," the
songs
only played one time each. I changed the timing to repeat until end of
slide,
but this caused the songs to overlap. I then changed the timing to
first
song, (none) and second song to play 3 times, etc. The songs still
would
only
play one time each.

I reverted back to my original settings for the effect options, e.g.,
first
song, stop after 23 slides, timing; play to end of slide; second song,
stop
after 39 slides, etc. Now, I am back in business except for the same
problem
of autorun not working properly on my computer. The autorun and PP
viewer,
as
always, are listed on the CD, but I still have to click on the PP file
and
select from the dropdown menu for Microsoft PowerPoint to run the
slideshow.
I can live with this as long as everything else works on the XP
computers,
but if you have anymore suggestions for me to try I would more than
welcome
them.

Again, I thank all of you for your time and help! I hope my experience
helps
someone else.

Deloresw



"Deloresw" wrote:

Thank you so much for your help! I will try not to cry too much if
something
does not work! I have had fun making the slideshows, but the small
glitches
were about to get me down.

Deloresw

"Echo S" wrote:

Well, I'm glad I could make you laugh, anyway!

But now I might make you cry. :-(

Using the "stop playing after 999 slides" won't keep you from having
to
make
timing adjustments to the slide transitions. But it should ensure
that
the
songs play all the way through and not stop unexpectedly partway
through the
song. I would not try to use a "stop after XX slides" and put the
real
number of slides in there. It just doesn't seem to work right for
some
strange reason.

However, you should be aware that timing is not PowerPoint's strong
suit.
You're not going to get extremely accurate timing with PPT. My
favorite
way
to explain it is, if you're playing the Star Spangled Banner and you
want
the fireworks animation to happen when the song says "and the
rockets'
red
glare," well, it ain't gonna happen. PPT just isn't going to be that
precise.

So, you will probably be better off just putting 3-, 4-, and
5-second
automatic transitions on each slide and trying to get within a few
seconds
of the total sound length.

Or, what I might do is use a sound editor and combine all the MP3s
into
one
sound file, insert that on the first slide and set it to stop
playing
after
999 slides, and then just set the transition times (3, 4, 5 seconds
or
so)
for all the slides.

Audacity is a good free sound editor.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
You
must download and install the LAME MP3 encoder as well, but there
are
links
to it on that site. Just click "Download Audacity 1.2.6" to get to
it.

As for putting the MP3 into the folder with the presentation before
inserting it, yes, it's a good habit to get into. But it's not
really
necessary since you're using Package for CD. The PfCD process
actually
creates a new folder and puts the presentation and the MP3s in the
same
folder -- and it fixes up all the links. So you don't have to worry
so
much
about starting with the MP3 in the same folder as the presentation.
It
may
make your life easier, though, and, as I mentioned, it really is a
good
habit to get into.

Go here http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd2.htm and scroll down a
little
way, and you can see a screeenshot of the files inside a package for
CD
folder. You'll have autorun.INF, gdiplus.dll, pptview.exe and a
bunch
of
other files. You'll also see your presentation file and your MP3s.
(The
linked audio in the screenshot is a WMA file, Beethoven's
Symphony....)
Burn
all those files to the CD. Don't burn the *folder.* Windows looks
for
the
autorun.INF file, or sometimes the play.BAT file, to start the CD
automatically. If that file is inside a folder, Windows can't see it
on
the
CD. And those INF/BAT files look for the pptview.exe file on the CD
directly. If it's in a folder, they can't find it. And thye
pptview.exe
file
looks for your presentation (PPT or PPS) file on the CD. If it's in
a
folder, the Viewer won't be able to find it. And so on. You get the
idea.

As for the 50,000 -- that is only for WAV files. Only WAVs can be
embedded,
and so that setting applies only to WAVs. You are working with MP3s,
so
you
can ignore it. You can leave it alone or set it back to 100 or
whatever. It
doesn't matter.

Oh, file size. 170 slides at 34MB or so doesn't seem out of whack.
So I
don't think the file size is the problem. (I could be wrong, though,
and I'm
sure others will pop in and correct me if I am!)

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
Thank you so much for your comments--you are soooo funny. smile
I
need
funny after being submerged in these slideshows.

I have been doing everything you said about adding the music,
except
I
have
spent a lot of time calculating the time for each song and testing
and
retesting when I add or delete a slide to make sure the songs do
not
overlap
or not play long enough. So if I set each song to stop playing
after
999
slides, will this alleviate me having to make adjustments to the
music
when I
need to make changes?

The song that will not play correctly on the XP computers is 2:23
minutes;
4.35 MB, the other songs are 8.18 MB; 4.67 MB; 7.63 MB; and 2.11
MB.
As
you
can see, I have added two more songs. smile Each slideshow is
approximately
170 slides of pictures and satelitte maps. The largest slideshow
is
about
34
MB and the others are about 24 MB.

You said "all the files should be "loose" on the CD. If they're
inside a
folder, the CD won't autorun."

If I am understanding you correctly, should I move the music files
and
slideshow file to the same folder BEFORE I begin inserting the
music
files
into the slideshow? I now have the music files in a folder under
"Music."
This morning, I made a new folder to prepare to move the music
files
and
slideshow into this new folder.

Also, should I adjust the maximum size for sound files back down
to
128 kb
from the 50,000 kbs?

Delores

For the sound part, here's the process I'd use to insert the
sounds.

1. On slide 1, Insert | Movies and Sounds | Sound from File.
Navigate
to
your MP3 and insert it.
2. When prompted, select "play automatically."
3. Right-click the sound icon on the slide, choose custom
animation
4. In the custom animation pane, double-click the sound file in
the
animation list to open the Play Sound dialog.
5. On the Effect tab, make sure Start Playing is set to "from
beginning"
and
"stop playing" is set to "after 999 slides." I know you may only
want
the
first sound to play for 10 slides or something, but go ahead and
put

You might try changing the autorun selection, just to see if that is the
culprit.

You could also try running the play.bat file that is also created when you
used the Copy to CD function. I don't have Vista on my computer at the
present time, as I need something that is reliable g So, I can't tell you
how to run the bat file. In XP you just click on start, run, and enter the
path to wherever your created files are stored, example
C:\yourCDfile\play.bat. As it looks like you have done everything correctly
in the creation of the files.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
The playlist text file has the name of the PP show: AlecNew.pps

I have not activated the autorun on anything but Media Player. When the
popup comes up, I ignore it and open a file where ever I choose. Maybe
that
is the problem on my computer. I have been blaming VISTA, which is easy to
do. smile I will test it and let you know what happens.

One of my son-in-laws is a computer specialist and he told me he NEVER
lets
any program open automatically so that would be the solution for why it
does
not open automatically on his computer. I am the one who questioned it,
but I
have. I would almost bet my other son-in-law feels the same way and has
the
autorun turned off.

"Echo S" wrote:

I think that should work. Maybe Michael will spot something, though --
he's
better with the autorun thing than I am!

What's in your playlist.txt file?

I'm wondering if it's just that autorun has been turned off on the
computer
in question.

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
The autorun.ini says open=pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt"
The options for package the CD a
Include these files
PP Viewer
Play all presentations automatically in the specified order
Linked files has check mark

"Echo S" wrote:

What Michael asked -- what does the autorun.ini say? (You can open it
in
Notepad or Wordpad.)

Or, when you go to File | Package for CD and choose Options, which
option
are you choosing for "select how presentations will play in the
viewer"?

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
news I'm back!! I really appreciate all of the time you spent helping me,
but
when
I changed the effect options to "Stop playing after 999 slides," the
songs
only played one time each. I changed the timing to repeat until end
of
slide,
but this caused the songs to overlap. I then changed the timing to
first
song, (none) and second song to play 3 times, etc. The songs still
would
only
play one time each.

I reverted back to my original settings for the effect options,
e.g.,
first
song, stop after 23 slides, timing; play to end of slide; second
song,
stop
after 39 slides, etc. Now, I am back in business except for the same
problem
of autorun not working properly on my computer. The autorun and PP
viewer,
as
always, are listed on the CD, but I still have to click on the PP
file
and
select from the dropdown menu for Microsoft PowerPoint to run the
slideshow.
I can live with this as long as everything else works on the XP
computers,
but if you have anymore suggestions for me to try I would more than
welcome
them.

Again, I thank all of you for your time and help! I hope my
experience
helps
someone else.

Deloresw



"Deloresw" wrote:

Thank you so much for your help! I will try not to cry too much if
something
does not work! I have had fun making the slideshows, but the small
glitches
were about to get me down.

Deloresw

"Echo S" wrote:

Well, I'm glad I could make you laugh, anyway!

But now I might make you cry. :-(

Using the "stop playing after 999 slides" won't keep you from
having
to
make
timing adjustments to the slide transitions. But it should ensure
that
the
songs play all the way through and not stop unexpectedly partway
through the
song. I would not try to use a "stop after XX slides" and put the
real
number of slides in there. It just doesn't seem to work right for
some
strange reason.

However, you should be aware that timing is not PowerPoint's
strong
suit.
You're not going to get extremely accurate timing with PPT. My
favorite
way
to explain it is, if you're playing the Star Spangled Banner and
you
want
the fireworks animation to happen when the song says "and the
rockets'
red
glare," well, it ain't gonna happen. PPT just isn't going to be
that
precise.

So, you will probably be better off just putting 3-, 4-, and
5-second
automatic transitions on each slide and trying to get within a
few
seconds
of the total sound length.

Or, what I might do is use a sound editor and combine all the
MP3s
into
one
sound file, insert that on the first slide and set it to stop
playing
after
999 slides, and then just set the transition times (3, 4, 5
seconds
or
so)
for all the slides.

Audacity is a good free sound editor.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
You
must download and install the LAME MP3 encoder as well, but there
are
links
to it on that site. Just click "Download Audacity 1.2.6" to get
to
it.

As for putting the MP3 into the folder with the presentation
before
inserting it, yes, it's a good habit to get into. But it's not
really
necessary since you're using Package for CD. The PfCD process
actually
creates a new folder and puts the presentation and the MP3s in
the
same
folder -- and it fixes up all the links. So you don't have to
worry
so
much
about starting with the MP3 in the same folder as the
presentation.
It
may
make your life easier, though, and, as I mentioned, it really is
a
good
habit to get into.

Go here http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd2.htm and scroll down
a
little
way, and you can see a screeenshot of the files inside a package
for
CD
folder. You'll have autorun.INF, gdiplus.dll, pptview.exe and a
bunch
of
other files. You'll also see your presentation file and your
MP3s.
(The
linked audio in the screenshot is a WMA file, Beethoven's
Symphony....)
Burn
all those files to the CD. Don't burn the *folder.* Windows looks
for
the
autorun.INF file, or sometimes the play.BAT file, to start the CD
automatically. If that file is inside a folder, Windows can't see
it
on
the
CD. And those INF/BAT files look for the pptview.exe file on the
CD
directly. If it's in a folder, they can't find it. And thye
pptview.exe
file
looks for your presentation (PPT or PPS) file on the CD. If it's
in
a
folder, the Viewer won't be able to find it. And so on. You get
the
idea.

As for the 50,000 -- that is only for WAV files. Only WAVs can be
embedded,
and so that setting applies only to WAVs. You are working with
MP3s,
so
you
can ignore it. You can leave it alone or set it back to 100 or
whatever. It
doesn't matter.

Oh, file size. 170 slides at 34MB or so doesn't seem out of
whack.
So I
don't think the file size is the problem. (I could be wrong,
though,
and I'm
sure others will pop in and correct me if I am!)

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
Thank you so much for your comments--you are soooo funny.
smile
I
need
funny after being submerged in these slideshows.

I have been doing everything you said about adding the music,
except
I
have
spent a lot of time calculating the time for each song and
testing
and
retesting when I add or delete a slide to make sure the songs
do
not
overlap
or not play long enough. So if I set each song to stop playing
after
999
slides, will this alleviate me having to make adjustments to
the
music
when I
need to make changes?

The song that will not play correctly on the XP computers is
2:23
minutes;
4.35 MB, the other songs are 8.18 MB; 4.67 MB; 7.63 MB; and
2.11
MB.
As
you
can see, I have added two more songs. smile Each slideshow is
approximately
170 slides of pictures and satelitte maps. The largest
slideshow
is
about
34
MB and the others are about 24 MB.

You said "all the files should be "loose" on the CD. If they're
inside a
folder, the CD won't autorun."

If I am understanding you correctly, should I move the music
files
and
slideshow file to the same folder BEFORE I begin inserting the
music
files
into the slideshow? I now have the music files in a folder
under
"Music."
This morning, I made a new folder to prepare to move the music
files
and
slideshow into this new folder.

Also, should I adjust the maximum size for sound files back
down
to
128 kb
from the 50,000 kbs?

Delores

For the sound part, here's the process I'd use to insert the
sounds.

1. On slide 1, Insert | Movies and Sounds | Sound from File.
Navigate
to
your MP3 and insert it.
2. When prompted, select "play automatically."
3. Right-click the sound icon on the slide, choose custom
animation
4. In the custom animation pane, double-click the sound file in
the
animation list to open the Play Sound dialog.
5. On the Effect tab, make sure Start Playing is set to "from
beginning"
and
"stop playing" is set to "after 999 slides." I know you may
only
want
the
first sound to play for 10 slides or something, but go ahead
and
put

What you're doing is fine.

The only thing it does is name the folder on your harddrive where all the
files are saved to. If you're using the "copy to CD" option to create the CD
directly (instead of copy to folder to create a folder on your harddrive),
then it *might* name the CD itself so it shows up with that name if you were
to, say, double-click My Computer and see the CD in the drive. Not sure,
though.

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
One more question--When I package the PowerPoint slideshow, I always type
in
a different name for the CD or file than the name of my PP slideshow. Is
this
the correct thing to do or am I supposed to use the same name as my PP
slideshow?

I have been curious where the CD or file name goes to. My actual PP
slideshow file name always appears in the list on the CD, but I have never
seen anything about the name I assigned to the packaging. I hope this
makes
sense.
Deloresw

"Echo S" wrote:

I think that should work. Maybe Michael will spot something, though --
he's
better with the autorun thing than I am!

What's in your playlist.txt file?

I'm wondering if it's just that autorun has been turned off on the
computer
in question.

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
The autorun.ini says open=pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt"
The options for package the CD a
Include these files
PP Viewer
Play all presentations automatically in the specified order
Linked files has check mark

"Echo S" wrote:

What Michael asked -- what does the autorun.ini say? (You can open it
in
Notepad or Wordpad.)

Or, when you go to File | Package for CD and choose Options, which
option
are you choosing for "select how presentations will play in the
viewer"?

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
news I'm back!! I really appreciate all of the time you spent helping me,
but
when
I changed the effect options to "Stop playing after 999 slides," the
songs
only played one time each. I changed the timing to repeat until end
of
slide,
but this caused the songs to overlap. I then changed the timing to
first
song, (none) and second song to play 3 times, etc. The songs still
would
only
play one time each.

I reverted back to my original settings for the effect options,
e.g.,
first
song, stop after 23 slides, timing; play to end of slide; second
song,
stop
after 39 slides, etc. Now, I am back in business except for the same
problem
of autorun not working properly on my computer. The autorun and PP
viewer,
as
always, are listed on the CD, but I still have to click on the PP
file
and
select from the dropdown menu for Microsoft PowerPoint to run the
slideshow.
I can live with this as long as everything else works on the XP
computers,
but if you have anymore suggestions for me to try I would more than
welcome
them.

Again, I thank all of you for your time and help! I hope my
experience
helps
someone else.

Deloresw



"Deloresw" wrote:

Thank you so much for your help! I will try not to cry too much if
something
does not work! I have had fun making the slideshows, but the small
glitches
were about to get me down.

Deloresw

"Echo S" wrote:

Well, I'm glad I could make you laugh, anyway!

But now I might make you cry. :-(

Using the "stop playing after 999 slides" won't keep you from
having
to
make
timing adjustments to the slide transitions. But it should ensure
that
the
songs play all the way through and not stop unexpectedly partway
through the
song. I would not try to use a "stop after XX slides" and put the
real
number of slides in there. It just doesn't seem to work right for
some
strange reason.

However, you should be aware that timing is not PowerPoint's
strong
suit.
You're not going to get extremely accurate timing with PPT. My
favorite
way
to explain it is, if you're playing the Star Spangled Banner and
you
want
the fireworks animation to happen when the song says "and the
rockets'
red
glare," well, it ain't gonna happen. PPT just isn't going to be
that
precise.

So, you will probably be better off just putting 3-, 4-, and
5-second
automatic transitions on each slide and trying to get within a
few
seconds
of the total sound length.

Or, what I might do is use a sound editor and combine all the
MP3s
into
one
sound file, insert that on the first slide and set it to stop
playing
after
999 slides, and then just set the transition times (3, 4, 5
seconds
or
so)
for all the slides.

Audacity is a good free sound editor.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
You
must download and install the LAME MP3 encoder as well, but there
are
links
to it on that site. Just click "Download Audacity 1.2.6" to get
to
it.

As for putting the MP3 into the folder with the presentation
before
inserting it, yes, it's a good habit to get into. But it's not
really
necessary since you're using Package for CD. The PfCD process
actually
creates a new folder and puts the presentation and the MP3s in
the
same
folder -- and it fixes up all the links. So you don't have to
worry
so
much
about starting with the MP3 in the same folder as the
presentation.
It
may
make your life easier, though, and, as I mentioned, it really is
a
good
habit to get into.

Go here http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd2.htm and scroll down
a
little
way, and you can see a screeenshot of the files inside a package
for
CD
folder. You'll have autorun.INF, gdiplus.dll, pptview.exe and a
bunch
of
other files. You'll also see your presentation file and your
MP3s.
(The
linked audio in the screenshot is a WMA file, Beethoven's
Symphony....)
Burn
all those files to the CD. Don't burn the *folder.* Windows looks
for
the
autorun.INF file, or sometimes the play.BAT file, to start the CD
automatically. If that file is inside a folder, Windows can't see
it
on
the
CD. And those INF/BAT files look for the pptview.exe file on the
CD
directly. If it's in a folder, they can't find it. And thye
pptview.exe
file
looks for your presentation (PPT or PPS) file on the CD. If it's
in
a
folder, the Viewer won't be able to find it. And so on. You get
the
idea.

As for the 50,000 -- that is only for WAV files. Only WAVs can be
embedded,
and so that setting applies only to WAVs. You are working with
MP3s,
so
you
can ignore it. You can leave it alone or set it back to 100 or
whatever. It
doesn't matter.

Oh, file size. 170 slides at 34MB or so doesn't seem out of
whack.
So I
don't think the file size is the problem. (I could be wrong,
though,
and I'm
sure others will pop in and correct me if I am!)

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
Thank you so much for your comments--you are soooo funny.
smile
I
need
funny after being submerged in these slideshows.

I have been doing everything you said about adding the music,
except
I
have
spent a lot of time calculating the time for each song and
testing
and
retesting when I add or delete a slide to make sure the songs
do
not
overlap
or not play long enough. So if I set each song to stop playing
after
999
slides, will this alleviate me having to make adjustments to
the
music
when I
need to make changes?

The song that will not play correctly on the XP computers is
2:23
minutes;
4.35 MB, the other songs are 8.18 MB; 4.67 MB; 7.63 MB; and
2.11
MB.
As
you
can see, I have added two more songs. smile Each slideshow is
approximately
170 slides of pictures and satelitte maps. The largest
slideshow
is
about
34
MB and the others are about 24 MB.

You said "all the files should be "loose" on the CD. If they're
inside a
folder, the CD won't autorun."

If I am understanding you correctly, should I move the music
files
and
slideshow file to the same folder BEFORE I begin inserting the
music
files
into the slideshow? I now have the music files in a folder
under
"Music."
This morning, I made a new folder to prepare to move the music
files
and
slideshow into this new folder.

Also, should I adjust the maximum size for sound files back
down
to
128 kb
from the 50,000 kbs?

Delores

For the sound part, here's the process I'd use to insert the
sounds.

1. On slide 1, Insert | Movies and Sounds | Sound from File.
Navigate
to
your MP3 and insert it.
2. When prompted, select "play automatically."
3. Right-click the sound icon on the slide, choose custom
animation
4. In the custom animation pane, double-click the sound file in
the
animation list to open the Play Sound dialog.
5. On the Effect tab, make sure Start Playing is set to "from
beginning"
and
"stop playing" is set to "after 999 slides." I know you may
only
want
the
first sound to play for 10 slides or something, but go ahead
and
put

Thanks I will try running the play.bat file. Also, after I sent my last post,
I remembered that all of the PowerPoint shows I receive via email ALWAYS
start automatically so I don't know WHY mine does not. Like I said, if that
feature does not work, I can live with it. It just bugs me as to why it won't.

Again, thank you for your help!

Deloresw

"Michael Koerner" wrote:

You might try changing the autorun selection, just to see if that is the
culprit.

You could also try running the play.bat file that is also created when you
used the Copy to CD function. I don't have Vista on my computer at the
present time, as I need something that is reliable g So, I can't tell you
how to run the bat file. In XP you just click on start, run, and enter the
path to wherever your created files are stored, example
C:\yourCDfile\play.bat. As it looks like you have done everything correctly
in the creation of the files.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
The playlist text file has the name of the PP show: AlecNew.pps

I have not activated the autorun on anything but Media Player. When the
popup comes up, I ignore it and open a file where ever I choose. Maybe
that
is the problem on my computer. I have been blaming VISTA, which is easy to
do. smile I will test it and let you know what happens.

One of my son-in-laws is a computer specialist and he told me he NEVER
lets
any program open automatically so that would be the solution for why it
does
not open automatically on his computer. I am the one who questioned it,
but I
have. I would almost bet my other son-in-law feels the same way and has
the
autorun turned off.

"Echo S" wrote:

I think that should work. Maybe Michael will spot something, though --
he's
better with the autorun thing than I am!

What's in your playlist.txt file?

I'm wondering if it's just that autorun has been turned off on the
computer
in question.

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
The autorun.ini says open=pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt"
The options for package the CD a
Include these files
PP Viewer
Play all presentations automatically in the specified order
Linked files has check mark

"Echo S" wrote:

What Michael asked -- what does the autorun.ini say? (You can open it
in
Notepad or Wordpad.)

Or, when you go to File | Package for CD and choose Options, which
option
are you choosing for "select how presentations will play in the
viewer"?

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
news I'm back!! I really appreciate all of the time you spent helping me,
but
when
I changed the effect options to "Stop playing after 999 slides," the
songs
only played one time each. I changed the timing to repeat until end
of
slide,
but this caused the songs to overlap. I then changed the timing to
first
song, (none) and second song to play 3 times, etc. The songs still
would
only
play one time each.

I reverted back to my original settings for the effect options,
e.g.,
first
song, stop after 23 slides, timing; play to end of slide; second
song,
stop
after 39 slides, etc. Now, I am back in business except for the same
problem
of autorun not working properly on my computer. The autorun and PP
viewer,
as
always, are listed on the CD, but I still have to click on the PP
file
and
select from the dropdown menu for Microsoft PowerPoint to run the
slideshow.
I can live with this as long as everything else works on the XP
computers,
but if you have anymore suggestions for me to try I would more than
welcome
them.

Again, I thank all of you for your time and help! I hope my
experience
helps
someone else.

Deloresw



"Deloresw" wrote:

Thank you so much for your help! I will try not to cry too much if
something
does not work! I have had fun making the slideshows, but the small
glitches
were about to get me down.

Deloresw

"Echo S" wrote:

Well, I'm glad I could make you laugh, anyway!

But now I might make you cry. :-(

Using the "stop playing after 999 slides" won't keep you from
having
to
make
timing adjustments to the slide transitions. But it should ensure
that
the
songs play all the way through and not stop unexpectedly partway
through the
song. I would not try to use a "stop after XX slides" and put the
real
number of slides in there. It just doesn't seem to work right for
some
strange reason.

However, you should be aware that timing is not PowerPoint's
strong
suit.
You're not going to get extremely accurate timing with PPT. My
favorite
way
to explain it is, if you're playing the Star Spangled Banner and
you
want
the fireworks animation to happen when the song says "and the
rockets'
red
glare," well, it ain't gonna happen. PPT just isn't going to be
that
precise.

So, you will probably be better off just putting 3-, 4-, and
5-second
automatic transitions on each slide and trying to get within a
few
seconds
of the total sound length.

Or, what I might do is use a sound editor and combine all the
MP3s
into
one
sound file, insert that on the first slide and set it to stop
playing
after
999 slides, and then just set the transition times (3, 4, 5
seconds
or
so)
for all the slides.

Audacity is a good free sound editor.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
You
must download and install the LAME MP3 encoder as well, but there
are
links
to it on that site. Just click "Download Audacity 1.2.6" to get
to
it.

As for putting the MP3 into the folder with the presentation
before
inserting it, yes, it's a good habit to get into. But it's not
really
necessary since you're using Package for CD. The PfCD process
actually
creates a new folder and puts the presentation and the MP3s in
the
same
folder -- and it fixes up all the links. So you don't have to
worry
so
much
about starting with the MP3 in the same folder as the
presentation.
It
may
make your life easier, though, and, as I mentioned, it really is
a
good
habit to get into.

Go here http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd2.htm and scroll down
a
little
way, and you can see a screeenshot of the files inside a package
for
CD
folder. You'll have autorun.INF, gdiplus.dll, pptview.exe and a
bunch
of
other files. You'll also see your presentation file and your
MP3s.
(The
linked audio in the screenshot is a WMA file, Beethoven's
Symphony....)
Burn
all those files to the CD. Don't burn the *folder.* Windows looks
for
the
autorun.INF file, or sometimes the play.BAT file, to start the CD
automatically. If that file is inside a folder, Windows can't see
it
on
the
CD. And those INF/BAT files look for the pptview.exe file on the
CD
directly. If it's in a folder, they can't find it. And thye
pptview.exe
file
looks for your presentation (PPT or PPS) file on the CD. If it's
in
a
folder, the Viewer won't be able to find it. And so on. You get
the
idea.

As for the 50,000 -- that is only for WAV files. Only WAVs can be
embedded,
and so that setting applies only to WAVs. You are working with
MP3s,
so
you
can ignore it. You can leave it alone or set it back to 100 or
whatever. It
doesn't matter.

Oh, file size. 170 slides at 34MB or so doesn't seem out of
whack.
So I
don't think the file size is the problem. (I could be wrong,
though,
and I'm
sure others will pop in and correct me if I am!)

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
Thank you so much for your comments--you are soooo funny.
smile
I
need
funny after being submerged in these slideshows.

I have been doing everything you said about adding the music,
except
I

I believe the issue is the autorun, then. FWIW, I don't let stuff autorun
much, either.

No worries. Just use the "open folder to view files" option and double-click
the play.bat file on the CD. If you don't have file extensions enabled (many
many users won't), then you won't see the ".bat" extension and would just
double-click the "play" file. You could give those instructions to your
users -- "This CD is set up to autorun when you insert it into the drive. If
it does not autorun, double-click the Play file to start the presentation."
Or something to that effect.

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"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
The playlist text file has the name of the PP show: AlecNew.pps

I have not activated the autorun on anything but Media Player. When the
popup comes up, I ignore it and open a file where ever I choose. Maybe
that
is the problem on my computer. I have been blaming VISTA, which is easy to
do. smile I will test it and let you know what happens.

One of my son-in-laws is a computer specialist and he told me he NEVER
lets
any program open automatically so that would be the solution for why it
does
not open automatically on his computer. I am the one who questioned it,
but I
have. I would almost bet my other son-in-law feels the same way and has
the
autorun turned off.

I have a folder on my C: drive called "tocd" without the quotes I created
this when I created my first copy to CD program. Now all I have to do is
copy any presentation to the folder, make the name change in the playlst
file and burn to a CD. Does not matter what your folder is called, as you
don't copy the folder to the CD. Everything goes into the root directory of
your CD .

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
One more question--When I package the PowerPoint slideshow, I always type
in
a different name for the CD or file than the name of my PP slideshow. Is
this
the correct thing to do or am I supposed to use the same name as my PP
slideshow?

I have been curious where the CD or file name goes to. My actual PP
slideshow file name always appears in the list on the CD, but I have never
seen anything about the name I assigned to the packaging. I hope this
makes
sense.
Deloresw

"Echo S" wrote:

I think that should work. Maybe Michael will spot something, though --
he's
better with the autorun thing than I am!

What's in your playlist.txt file?

I'm wondering if it's just that autorun has been turned off on the
computer
in question.

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"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
The autorun.ini says open=pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt"
The options for package the CD a
Include these files
PP Viewer
Play all presentations automatically in the specified order
Linked files has check mark

"Echo S" wrote:

What Michael asked -- what does the autorun.ini say? (You can open it
in
Notepad or Wordpad.)

Or, when you go to File | Package for CD and choose Options, which
option
are you choosing for "select how presentations will play in the
viewer"?

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"Deloresw" wrote in message
news I'm back!! I really appreciate all of the time you spent helping me,
but
when
I changed the effect options to "Stop playing after 999 slides," the
songs
only played one time each. I changed the timing to repeat until end
of
slide,
but this caused the songs to overlap. I then changed the timing to
first
song, (none) and second song to play 3 times, etc. The songs still
would
only
play one time each.

I reverted back to my original settings for the effect options,
e.g.,
first
song, stop after 23 slides, timing; play to end of slide; second
song,
stop
after 39 slides, etc. Now, I am back in business except for the same
problem
of autorun not working properly on my computer. The autorun and PP
viewer,
as
always, are listed on the CD, but I still have to click on the PP
file
and
select from the dropdown menu for Microsoft PowerPoint to run the
slideshow.
I can live with this as long as everything else works on the XP
computers,
but if you have anymore suggestions for me to try I would more than
welcome
them.

Again, I thank all of you for your time and help! I hope my
experience
helps
someone else.

Deloresw



"Deloresw" wrote:

Thank you so much for your help! I will try not to cry too much if
something
does not work! I have had fun making the slideshows, but the small
glitches
were about to get me down.

Deloresw

"Echo S" wrote:

Well, I'm glad I could make you laugh, anyway!

But now I might make you cry. :-(

Using the "stop playing after 999 slides" won't keep you from
having
to
make
timing adjustments to the slide transitions. But it should ensure
that
the
songs play all the way through and not stop unexpectedly partway
through the
song. I would not try to use a "stop after XX slides" and put the
real
number of slides in there. It just doesn't seem to work right for
some
strange reason.

However, you should be aware that timing is not PowerPoint's
strong
suit.
You're not going to get extremely accurate timing with PPT. My
favorite
way
to explain it is, if you're playing the Star Spangled Banner and
you
want
the fireworks animation to happen when the song says "and the
rockets'
red
glare," well, it ain't gonna happen. PPT just isn't going to be
that
precise.

So, you will probably be better off just putting 3-, 4-, and
5-second
automatic transitions on each slide and trying to get within a
few
seconds
of the total sound length.

Or, what I might do is use a sound editor and combine all the
MP3s
into
one
sound file, insert that on the first slide and set it to stop
playing
after
999 slides, and then just set the transition times (3, 4, 5
seconds
or
so)
for all the slides.

Audacity is a good free sound editor.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
You
must download and install the LAME MP3 encoder as well, but there
are
links
to it on that site. Just click "Download Audacity 1.2.6" to get
to
it.

As for putting the MP3 into the folder with the presentation
before
inserting it, yes, it's a good habit to get into. But it's not
really
necessary since you're using Package for CD. The PfCD process
actually
creates a new folder and puts the presentation and the MP3s in
the
same
folder -- and it fixes up all the links. So you don't have to
worry
so
much
about starting with the MP3 in the same folder as the
presentation.
It
may
make your life easier, though, and, as I mentioned, it really is
a
good
habit to get into.

Go here http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd2.htm and scroll down
a
little
way, and you can see a screeenshot of the files inside a package
for
CD
folder. You'll have autorun.INF, gdiplus.dll, pptview.exe and a
bunch
of
other files. You'll also see your presentation file and your
MP3s.
(The
linked audio in the screenshot is a WMA file, Beethoven's
Symphony....)
Burn
all those files to the CD. Don't burn the *folder.* Windows looks
for
the
autorun.INF file, or sometimes the play.BAT file, to start the CD
automatically. If that file is inside a folder, Windows can't see
it
on
the
CD. And those INF/BAT files look for the pptview.exe file on the
CD
directly. If it's in a folder, they can't find it. And thye
pptview.exe
file
looks for your presentation (PPT or PPS) file on the CD. If it's
in
a
folder, the Viewer won't be able to find it. And so on. You get
the
idea.

As for the 50,000 -- that is only for WAV files. Only WAVs can be
embedded,
and so that setting applies only to WAVs. You are working with
MP3s,
so
you
can ignore it. You can leave it alone or set it back to 100 or
whatever. It
doesn't matter.

Oh, file size. 170 slides at 34MB or so doesn't seem out of
whack.
So I
don't think the file size is the problem. (I could be wrong,
though,
and I'm
sure others will pop in and correct me if I am!)

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"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
Thank you so much for your comments--you are soooo funny.
smile
I
need
funny after being submerged in these slideshows.

I have been doing everything you said about adding the music,
except
I
have
spent a lot of time calculating the time for each song and
testing
and
retesting when I add or delete a slide to make sure the songs
do
not
overlap
or not play long enough. So if I set each song to stop playing
after
999
slides, will this alleviate me having to make adjustments to
the
music
when I
need to make changes?

The song that will not play correctly on the XP computers is
2:23
minutes;
4.35 MB, the other songs are 8.18 MB; 4.67 MB; 7.63 MB; and
2.11
MB.
As
you
can see, I have added two more songs. smile Each slideshow is
approximately
170 slides of pictures and satelitte maps. The largest
slideshow
is
about
34
MB and the others are about 24 MB.

You said "all the files should be "loose" on the CD. If they're
inside a
folder, the CD won't autorun."

If I am understanding you correctly, should I move the music
files
and
slideshow file to the same folder BEFORE I begin inserting the
music
files
into the slideshow? I now have the music files in a folder
under
"Music."
This morning, I made a new folder to prepare to move the music
files
and
slideshow into this new folder.

Also, should I adjust the maximum size for sound files back
down
to
128 kb
from the 50,000 kbs?

Delores

For the sound part, here's the process I'd use to insert the
sounds.

1. On slide 1, Insert | Movies and Sounds | Sound from File.
Navigate
to
your MP3 and insert it.
2. When prompted, select "play automatically."
3. Right-click the sound icon on the slide, choose custom
animation
4. In the custom animation pane, double-click the sound file in
the
animation list to open the Play Sound dialog.
5. On the Effect tab, make sure Start Playing is set to "from
beginning"
and
"stop playing" is set to "after 999 slides." I know you may
only
want
the
first sound to play for 10 slides or something, but go ahead
and
put